Posts by Norm Sash
Should I choose a web site or blog site?
Photo Source I had an interesting conversation with a client the other day that caused me some reflection. This conversation was about converting the client’s existing ASPX based site to a blog site. I wanted to do this for several reasons: Jean had both the ASPX web site and also a WordPress blog hosted at…
Read MoreConfiguring MailChimp Auto-responder for Income Infuser
The Mailchimp auto-responder will work with Income Infuser, but it has to have a specific configuration. For the most part everything works just fine between the two of them if you just pay attention to the naming of the variables and understand the way MailChimp treats variables. First, MailChimp delimits field names with special character…
Read MoreUnzipping the Income Infuser Install Package
There is a step during the installation where you have to extract the Income Infuser ver x.x file on your server. There are a couple of things to note here: The Income Infuser zip file should be placed into the root folder of the domain you are installing it on. For example, if your domain…
Read MoreWindows Live Domain Suspended
I use Windows Live to manage the email for my domain, NormSash.com. But one day after making some DNS changes I noticed the warning Service Suspended in my Live Domain Admin screen.  I modified the DNS MX records per the instructions at Windows Live Help, but when I perform a DNS lookup for the MX…
Read MoreWindows Live Writer Fails to Download and Update Theme
I was having problems with Windows Live Writer being able to update the theme. I tried almost everything I could think of: changing to/from static pages, performing a quick post then immediate update, deleting the account and setting it up again, etc.  Nothing I tried seemed to work. As I ware browsing the internet for…
Read MoreCentering Pictures in Windows Live Writer
Why my pictures would not center in my blog. The pictures I was placing in my blog would not center if they were placed side by side even if I set the paragraph style to centered or set the picture alignment to center. When Windows Live Writer applies a paragraph style to center it sets…
Read MoreProblem: Web Expression files conflict status when publishing.
Thanks so much for posting this solution, Guy Thomas. I’ve often faced the problem where my Expression Web local site was in conflict with my remote site. Using this simple solution method you posted (with one slight addition) seemed to solve my issue. When I bring up my site in Expression Web and look at…
Read MoreMy browser says website is not available…
We all have favorite websites that we often visit, and the modern browser versions from Internet Explorer (IE), Chrome, Firefox, etc all help with this. One of the ways they help is by maintaining a list of recently visited web sites that match whatever you may be typing in the address bar. Notice in the…
Read MoreProblems with selecting object in PowerShape-e
I recently downloaded Delcam’s PowerShape-e design program for evaluation. Looking at the videos there seemed to be some very interesting capabilities. Shortly after downloading I was up and running (after entering in the password) and off to creating my first drawing – a circle!! Creating the circle worked just fine and was certainly intuitive. But…
Read MoreMindjet MindManager 8
I used to use MindManager 6 back when I lived the corporate life with Intel. It was a good package back then and it came is quite useful on various tasks. But it never did become a mainstream application for me. This just might change with MindManager 🙂 For those of you who might not…
Read More